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초록

This study started with a critical realization that, when various places around the world were hosting 100th anniversary events to commemorate the historical pain of the Armenian genocide that was perpetrated by Turkey in 1915, people in Korea hardly paid attention to these historical and cultural events. Such indifference may have been due to the fact that Armenia, which is located in the Caucasus region, is not a country that is well known to us. However, the history of Armenia, has many similarities with the history of our people, who have had to ceaselessly endure the suffering caused by being surrounded by world powers, as destiny located us at a crossroads for powerful invaders. Based on such perceptions of history, this study considered ways in which the Armenian genocide appeared as the main theme of films. Primarily shedding light on the historical background that led to the mass genocide, this study used the historical background as a basis to analyze artistic reproductions of the “collective memory” of trauma in the consciousness and unconsciousness of Armenians. Out of the films that use the Armenian genocide as the main theme or as a temporal or spatial setting, the study especially highlighted films in which the genocide formed the historical or ideological motive for the production of the film, films that were made by directors of the Armenian Diaspora who possessed an ethnic Armenian identity, and films that experimented with the different visual techniques of documentary and art films from an aesthetic perspective. The ways in which Armenians left a visual record of the harsh memory of genocide and produced “films of memory and healing,” from a desire to heal their own people have great implications for us Koreans.

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